The ancients mistakenly thought that cicadas lived by eating wind and drinking dew, so they praised cicadas as a symbol of nobility, or used them to pin their ideals and ambitions, or used them as metaphors for their own bumpy and unfortunate life experiences.
2. Grass
"The annual spring grass is green", and the grass flows in an orderly way at any time, which is easy to touch long-lost worries; In the exhibition of space, the grass is lush and unattainable, which seems to lead people's thoughts into the distance. This scene is vividly shown in Yuefu's Grass on the Green Side of Philip Burkart Road and Bai Juyi's Incense Them on the Old Road and Reaching the crumbling Gate.
Therefore, in ancient poetry, whenever we write about leaving for a long journey and expressing sorrow and hatred, we often take grass as our sustenance or background.
3. loose
Pine trees are a model of fighting frost and snow, and naturally they are the object of praise. Li Bai's "Book for Huang Shang": "I hope you are loose, but be careful not to be peaches and plums." Wei always flatters powerful people, and Li Bai writes poems to persuade him to be an upright person. Serina Liu in the Three Kingdoms gave his younger brother: "Don't suffer from cold, pine and cypress are sexual." The poet used this sentence to encourage his cousin to be as loyal as sending pines and cypresses, and to maintain noble quality under any circumstances.
4. Lotus
Because "lotus" and "pity" are homonyms, there are many poems about lotus in ancient poetry to express love. For example, "Xizhou Qu" by Yuefu in the Southern Dynasties: "Lotus is picked in autumn in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the lotus is over the head; Bow your head to get lotus seeds, which are as green as water. "
There are both real and imaginary here, which means pun. The rhetorical device of homophonic pun is used to express a woman's deep yearning for the man she loves and the purity of love.
5. Indus River
Indus is a symbol of desolation and sadness. For example, Wang Changling's Poem of Long Letters in Autumn says, "The phoenix tree in Jinjing is yellow with autumn leaves, and the bead curtain does not frost at night. The smoked jade pillow has no color, and you can listen to the Nangong for a long time. " It is about a girl who is deprived of youth, freedom and happiness. In a desolate and lonely palace, she lay alone, listening to the palace leak.
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